The word "buttress" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a support structure that is used to strengthen a wall or other structure. For example: "The buttress reinforced the wall, making it strong enough to withstand earthquakes."
Possibly in an attempt to buttress itself against the day the oil runs out, the city is building a museum complex called Saadiyat Island, which will feature branches of not just the Guggenheim (again) but the Louvre as well.
They are a buttress rather than a threat to financial stability.
Mr Blair promises to pronounce on these tests within two years, which gives him precious little time to turn opinion in favour of the euro even if he could be confident that developments on the mainland would buttress his arguments for joining.
Thousands of pious, peaceful Muslims are also locked up.Yet the West is usually silent about Uzbekistan's abuses, seeing Mr Karimov as a useful buttress against Islamist terror on Afghanistan's northern border.
Mr Reagan supported his religious right wing, at least in theory, but as a buttress, from the outside.
Indeed, Sheila Bair, one of America's bank regulators, thinks that her foreign counterparts should adopt something like the American approach to buttress Basel 2. A number of European bank regulators and academics agree.
Reserves are held to buttress confidence in a country's own currency, not as a float for global trading.
Opponents retort that a judge who thinks he can pick and choose precedents from anywhere to buttress his arguments is allowing himself vast latitude to make up the law as he goes along.Mr Kennedy's views matter because, sandwiched between four conservatives and four liberals, he is almost always on the winning side.
Most people have a pretty low opinion of the tabloid press already, and most of the new revelations merely buttress rumours and suggestions that have been in the ether for a long while.
It seeks to tackle the three concerns about capital, liquidity and funding that have eroded confidence in the banking system.First, the Treasury is prepared to inject up to £50 billion ($87 billion) into British banks to buttress the capital they need to support their businesses; in return it will get preference shares.
Only when the killing declines will Iraq's new government be able to buttress its legitimacy, suck support away from the militias and rebuild the economy.A few weeks into the surge, it is too early to assess the validity of this beguiling hypothesis.
